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Eat Your Fruits and Veggies? Yes? No? Maybe?

April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Nutrition Nuggets, nutrition

By 
Carol Berg Sloan, RD

A recent study found that fruit and vegetable consumption is only weakly linked to decreased cancer risk. For a dietitian, this is bad news– we have been telling everyone for years to eat their fruits and vegetables, and then one of the strongest risk-reduction messages is shot down.
What to do? First, [...]

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Treasure Box program offers low-cost grocery packages to community

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Health, News, nutrition

Sometimes the most essential things in life are hard to come by. Providing affordable and quality meals to hungry individuals and families in communities throughout Southern California and beyond is a service The Treasure Box takes very seriously. Its mission is to improve the quality of meal time and bring communities together, one Treasure Box [...]

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A wake-up call to keep kids fit

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Health, Nutrition Nuggets, food, nutrition

By Carol Berg Sloan, RD

I don’t know about you, but I am thrilled that First Lady Michelle Obama has gotten on the bandwagon to bring the childhood obesity onto center stage with the Let’s Move Campaign (letsmove.gov). I sometimes wonder if Americans realize what a health crisis the number of overweight children is now and [...]

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Extreme Makeover – Family Kitchen Edition

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Health, Nutrition Nuggets

By Carol Berg Sloan
Registered Dietitian
To eat healthier, you have to start at the very beginning– a healthy kitchen cupboard. We recently did a walk-through of our kitchen stock for a couple of reasons: 1) to get rid of stuff that had been in the cupboard way too long and 2) to be more mindful shoppers [...]

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